XArchive 0.2.8-6 was used to extract, it was suggested on download by Puppy as default app.

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Which Pup?

Lupuplus libre is the pup, not sure which version. Have misplaced the original iso downloaded, the LiveDVD I burned with it has died, and I am booting the updated 5.2.8.sfs with an older Lucid 5.2.8 LiveCD. The current version of Lupupluslibre linked on the Lucid 5.2.8 thread seems to be corrupted (md5sum doesn’t match),

Have just noted that the sfs file loaded (I believe!) is called lupu_528-0.sfs and is dated as "changed" Sept. 7, 2011, and "modified" August 20, 2011. The copy burned to CD is called lupu_528.sfs and is dated Aug. 17, 2011. They seem to be the same size - 125M (130916368 Bytes), according to pmount.. This is baffling, as I recall the lupupluslibre download being substantially larger, around 300MB, IIRC.

So I guess I don't really have a clue what I'm running.

This is one of the more annoying aspects of the pupply version proliferation...

Update: looking through the pet manager, I see that what's on this desktop machine is instant update Lucid 528-001

Also checked the file sizes of my recent corrupted lupupluslibre download and found it only 182MB in size, where it should have been 296MB. Am now downloading it again, and keeping my fingers crossed.

Correction: I must have interrupted the second incomplete download. The third had the right MB count of 296, but failed the md5sum check. Hoping someone with the current lupulibre ISO can tell me whether the md5sum on the Lucid page is wrong.

528's fine. As suggested in the readme, I'd probably remove the old one, then run a manual install from their tarball. In other words.. you can remove it via PPM, which should wipe out the f-prot folder in opt, while effectively breaking any symlinks in /usr/local/bin. You could just as well delete it. You might wanna backup your current def file before proceeding, that is- if ya think ya can handle the manual install. Hint: Rt-clk the pet and >> file >> extract here.. then take a look..

Any symlinks to fpscan and/or fpupdate in /usr/local/bin on your current install? There an f-prot.conf in /etc?

528's fine. As suggested in the readme, I'd probably remove the old one, then run a manual install from their tarball. In other words.. you can remove it via PPM, which should wipe out the f-prot folder in opt, while effectively breaking any symlinks in /usr/local/bin. You could just as well delete it. You might wanna backup your current def file before proceeding, that is- if ya think ya can handle the manual install. Hint: Rt-clk the pet and >> file >> extract here.. then take a look..

Any symlinks to fpscan and/or fpupdate in /usr/local/bin on your current install? There an f-prot.conf in /etc?

Appreciate you help. But I'm far from confident about the manual install. The old engine still works, and I don't want to lose it. As soon as I can get a fresh copy of lupulibre, I'll be happy to try your instructions on another installation. But for now, I can't risk it. Thanks._________________otropogo@gmail.com facebook.com/otropogo

i installed fprot on ThinSlack 5.3.3 but I couldnot do the scan. instead i got this message "Can not get handle to virus signature file: Invalid parameter" I am not sure how to update or create a virus signature file
thanks for help

i installed fprot on ThinSlack 5.3.3 but I couldnot do the scan. instead i got this message "Can not get handle to virus signature file: Invalid parameter" I am not sure how to update or create a virus signature file
thanks for help

I haven't tried ThinSlack, but xfprot (the updater for Fprot sigs) is the main reason I'm still running Luplus5.28-005, instead of 5.28.6 or other variants of Puppy.

I need a virus scanner on Puppy, because I download all my stuff from the Web using it, and run Windows on the same machine. The Windows doesn't go online, so it has no protection against any malware in the downloaded material.

Unfortunately, virus scanners seem almost non-existent in the Linux world. Knoppix 7.2 has one availale -clamAV IIRC. And I installed with synaptic and ran it for a while. Then, when I went to update the sigs files, after a one month or longer interval, I found they were still current! Not too reassuring.

Fprot, although it has an ancient engine, updates its sigs fairly frequently. But it's not listed in Knoppix's two repositories, and no-one seems to have made a pet for xfprot for Puppy in recent years. And xfprot is getting fairly old now too, and I've never been able to find an installation package for it, other than the old pet.

There's a Debian package for one of the other free scanners available, but I don't feel confident about doing manual installs.

How did you install your fprot in ThinSlack?_________________otropogo@gmail.com facebook.com/otropogo

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